House of Commons debates
Wednesday, 21 December 1960
- Preamble (0 speeches)
The House met at Eleven o'clock
- Prayers (0 speeches)
[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]
- Oral Answers to Questions — Telephone Service (0 speeches)
- Equipment (Production and Supply) (4 speeches)
asked the Postmaster-General if he is satisfied that the group of telephone manufacturers which is responsible for the production and supply of telephone equipment for his Department are meeting...
- Public Kiosks (4 speeches)
asked the Postmaster-General his policy in regard to the provision of public telephone kiosks.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Post Office (0 speeches)
- Telecommunications Research Satellite (8 speeches)
asked the Postmaster-General whether he will make a further statement regarding his investigations into the possibility of a British telecommunications research satellite and its commercial...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Wireless and Television (0 speeches)
- Advertising (4 speeches)
asked the Postmaster-General when he proposes to consult the Independent Television Authority under subsection (4) of section 4 of the Television Act, 1954, with a view to reducing the maximum...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Meteorological Office (0 speeches)
- Rain (Forecasting) (4 speeches)
Mr. Gresham Cooke: asked the Secretary of State for Air whether the exceptional amount of rain this autumn has stimulated research into the causes of periods of heavy rain; whether any lines of...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Royal Air Force (0 speeches)
- Air-Trooping Contract (6 speeches)
asked the Secretary of State for Air whether, before awarding an air-trooping contract to West Germany for British Army and Royal Air Force personnel to Silver City Airways, he invited British...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Shipping (0 speeches)
- Motor Boats, Lake Windermere (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport when he anticipates being in a position to take action, following the inquiry held at Windermere on 20th September, 1960, with regard to the need for additional...
- Life Jackets (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport, in view of the fact that his Department's standard life jacket does not comply with the Merchant Shipping (Life Saving Appliances) Rules, 1958, No. 602, Eleventh...
- Nuclear Power (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport when he will announce the award of a tender for the construction of the first British nuclear-powered merchant ship.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Transport (0 speeches)
- Motor Vehicles (Emission of Fumes) (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport what steps he will now take to prevent the poisoning of the air in large towns by fumes from motor vehicles, including visible smoke from diesel engines, to...
- Light Commercial Vehicles (Speed Limit) (10 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport if he will now relax the 30 miles-per-hour speed limit for light commercial vehicles.
- Roundabouts (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport if he will prepare a code of traffic conduct for motorists negotiating roundabouts from different directions.
- London (10 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport, in view of the many complaints which are being made regarding the administration and operation of the London Transport Executive, whether he will set up a special...
- Road Accidents, Warwickshire (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport how many persons have died in Warwickshire during the past twelve months as a result of traffic accidents; and how these figures compare with previous years.
- M.1 Road (Additional Expenditure) (8 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport how much additional expenditure on account of bad weather conditions was incurred by his Department to enable the contract work for the M.1 to be completed on...
- Headlights (Dazzle) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport how many accidents have been caused in the last twelve months as a result of motorists being dazzled by headlights.
- Vehicle Tests (7 speeches)
Mr. G. Wilson: asked the Minister of Transport when he proposes to make the testing of ten-year-old vehicles compulsory.
- Goods Vehicles (Abnormal Loads) (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport if he will introduce legislation to restrict the movement of road vehicles carrying exceptionally long and wide loads to the hours between 7 pm. and 7 a.m.
- Road Accidents and Alcohol (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport whether road accidents in which alcohol is a contributing factor are on the increase.
- Oral Answers to Questions — Roads (0 speeches)
- Motorways (Tolls) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport what progress has been made in the study given by his Department to the charging of tolls on new motorways; when the study began; and when it is expected to be...
- Morehard Row-Torrington Road (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport if he will consider upgrading the B.3220 Morehard Row-Torrington Road, in order to relieve traffic congestion on the A.30 road between Exeter and Okehampton.
- Dartford-Purfleet Tunnel (Tolls) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport the basis of his estimate that it will take about twenty years to repay the money advanced towards the cost of the Dartford-Purfleet Tunnel and to abolish tolls.
- Rule of the Road (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport if, in view of the increasing volume of motor traffic between the United Kingdom and the countries of Western Europe and the fact that the rule of the road varies,...
- A.34, Bullington Cross (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport when he hopes to begin work to eliminate the bends on A.34 just south of Bullington Cross, Hampshire.
- A.30 (Dual carriageways) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport what plans he has for providing dual carriageways on A.30 between the top of Kempshott Hill and the junction with A.33.
- Trunk Roads (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport what steps he is taking to remove major hindrances to the flow of traffic on important derestricted trunk roads.
- A.1 Road, Yorkshire (Dual Carriageways) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport if he will have signs indicating their lengths erected at each end of all sections of dual carriageways as is done on A.1 in Yorkshire.
- Gower Street-Hampstead Road, London (2 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport when he expects the projected traffic lights at the junction of Gower Street and Hampstead Road, London, will be working.
- M.1 Road (Petrol Stations) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport to what extent under his regulations motorists are prevented from buying British petrol from stations on the M.1.
- Great Cambridge Road (Lamp-posts) (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport how many concrete lamp-posts have been knocked down in road accidents on the Great Cambridge Road between the North Circular Roundabout and the Bullsmoor Lane...
- M.1 Road (Anti-Dazzle Fence) (10 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport if he will give details of the disadvantages of using the expanded metal anti-dazzle fence on M.1.
- Winchester Avenue, Heston (4 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport when work will be started on the new South Wales Radial Road in so far as the borough of Heston and Isleworth will be affected; and when he intends to make money...
- Oral Answers to Questions — Railways (0 speeches)
- Electrification (18 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport how many new electric rail services under the capital development programme are to be opened in the near future.
- Victoria Line Tube (6 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport the latest estimates of the cost of the Victoria Line tube.
- New Stations and Buildings (5 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport, in view of the large capital expenditure involved, whether he will give a general direction to the British Transport Commission that designs for new stations and...
- British Transport Commission (White Paper) (8 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport at what time and on what day the final version of the Government White Paper on the future of the British Transport Commission reached Her Majesty's Stationery...
- Stedeford Report (10 speeches)
asked the Minister of Transport when he proposes to introduce legislation to carry out the administrative and financial proposals arising from Her Majesty's Government's consideration of the...
- Southern Rhodesia Constitutional Conference (11 speeches)
The following Question stood upon the Order Paper:
- Bills Presented (0 speeches)
- White Fish and Herring Industries (0 speeches)
Bill to make further provision for financial assistance for the white fish and herring industries (including advances to the White Fish Authority), presented by Mr. Christopher Soames; supported...
- Sheriffs' Pensions (Scotland) (0 speeches)
Bill to amend the law with respect to the pensions attributable to the office of sheriff and salaried sheriff-substitute, to regulate the age of retirement from such offices and to regulate the...
- Crofters (Scotland) (0 speeches)
Bill to make fresh provision with respect to the reorganisation, development and regulation of crofting in the crofting counties of Scotland; to authorise the making of grants and loans for the...
- Boxing (10 speeches)
12.7 p.m.
- North of Scotland Hydroelectric Board (17 speeches)
12.35 p.m.
- United Nations and Congo (33 speeches)
1.29 p.m.
- State Scholarships (11 speeches)
2.48 p.m.
- Communications Satellite Programme (14 speeches)
3.39 p.m.
- Independent Television Authority (Newspaper Advertising) (23 speeches)
4.35 p.m.
